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Ben Pettis
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Assistant Professor
University of Richmond
Studying Internet culture & web histories.
So basically I get to look at memes and scroll through social media and call it "data collection" he/him 🦆 | 🐏 | 🦡
Boosts = 'hey check this thing out' and not always full endorsement/agreement.
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Ah yes, seems like all is well for the current state of academic publishing and the peer review process...
Separately, any suggestions on how I should celebrate the upcoming 1 year anniversary of this piece being under review?
https://www.henricocitizen.com/breaking-henrico-cancels-flock-safety-contract/
Don't love the "will review other options" that they throw in at the end, but this is still something!
There were/are 128+ cameras placed all over Henrico county -- I will be very glad to see them finally come down.
Walked into the classroom where I teach to see that someone had left emergency contraceptives and Narcan for anyone to take if needed.
Some students in the room pointed it out and were laughing about it. I opted to play dumb:
- What's so funny? I don't get it.
- Well it's just weird
- Really, weird? Why?
- Well the narcan is just a little odd
- Why's that? It saves lives. Seems good to have around
- Well I just don't think it should be here
- Oh why not? Or where should it be?
- uhhh
The UW Foundation and the Wisconsin Alumni Association might want to rethinking how they introducing their fundraising campaign.
"Flock" is not exactly a term that has positive connotations in many people's minds.
I study this stuff for a living, and here’s my take:
Turning over enormous portions of the public sphere and sites for civic engagement to privately owned for-profit companies was a Bad Idea™
Can't wait to live in the opening credits to Futurama with flying shit clogging up the sky above me all the damn time.
What a stupid world we live in.
https://www.deq.virginia.gov/Home/Components/Calendar/Event/5350/133
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@Natasha_Jay@tech.lgbt @brooke@bikeshed.vibber.net
someone made an English version of the manual
https://pixeldrain.com/d/gSFoV1EC
I'll take "secure in their masculinity" for 200, Alex
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If anyone coming across this post is at an institution that uses Canvas, please send me links/images of how your IT depts are announcing the outage. I'm going to be collating pages over the coming days, but there's thousands of Canvas schools and only one of me!
#academicMastodon #academicChatter #canvas #shinyHunters
This is a new one in the fuckery of US healthcare. In my visit notes describing what we talked about when I was seen by this doctor, they write that I refused to be seen.
Notably, I am not "a *pleasant* 30 year old male" in their description of me anywhere, either....
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Some more directly say "this isn't an *us* problem" while others are more general -- for students trying to turn in work and profs just trying to grade, the distinction of *who* is actually responsible is probably not the top priority right now
#academicMastodon #academicChatter #canvas #shinyHunters
Ah, yes, "scheduled." I don't think that word means what you think it means...
Alternatively, this is why Trump didn't go to his son's wedding: he already had something else planned that day
https://abcnews.com/US/white-house-lawn-cleared-after-apparent-gunshots/story?id=133257965
Remember kids, crime doesn't pay. Except for all the times that it does pay...
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@mattblaze@federate.social @jbaggs@infosec.exchange
The especially strange banal part of it for me was seeing how the shooter was holding up a cell phone (filming, I assume) in one hand while drawing the gun with the other.
I've seen so many people with that same kind of "split attention" - staring at their phone while walking, opening a door, or doing something else. Only difference is this guy was murdering someone while also on his phone.
I'm tired, boss
Trump administration cut funding to study hantavirus, the virus behind deadly cruise ship outbreak | Scientific American
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/trump-administration-cut-funding-to-study-hantavirus-behind-deadly-cruise-ship-outbreak/
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@natematias@social.coop @rose_alibi@post.lurk.org
Seems more akin to when SpaceX rockets undergo "Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QaZ2-TXrlwM
SpaceX's Starship experiences 'rapid unscheduled disassembly' in 9th test flight
It's been nearly 10 years since Harambe was shot and killed by a worker at the Cincinnati Zoo.
How poetic would it be for our decade-long curse to be lifted by The News finally breaking that day -- you know, the obituary that will be on the front page of newspapers everywhere
babe wake up a new multi-lingual version of the text on https://example.com just* dropped
* This might be old news. I'm not sure when this change was made and it may very well have been several months ago
I have been running Debian (with KDE Plasma desktop) as the primary OS on my desktop computer for a while, and I'm *thrilled* that I have not needed to boot into my Windows partition at any point in the last several months.
9/10 -- would recommend. My university's IT has really locked down access to some services (i.e. won't allow direct IMAP syncing to Thunderbird) -- so I have to use the Web UI for a lot of things -- but honestly maybe that's better for my overall work-life balance anyway